Jonathan Dimbleby

Jonathan was the only British television journalist to interview Gorbachev during the Cold War, and, returning to Russia for the first time since those days, he discovers a land transformed....

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of extermination to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create Lebensraum for the German master race....

This is a unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein - 'the end of the beginning' - and the bloody battle that followed....

In this book, bestselling historian Jonathan Dimbleby describes and analyses this momentous year, covering the military, political and diplomatic story in his evocative style.

The Battle of the Atlantic was - though often overlooked - crucial to victory in the Second World War....